Researcher

Dr. Hoong Yan See Tao is a Research Project Manager for the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). Previously, Yan was a SERC Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow where she conducted research in mission engineering, digital engineering, and performed project management roles with several human capital development and systems engineering and systems management transformation projects. Yan graduated with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in 2017 and her dissertation title is “Modeling and Visualization of a Sustainable Energy System in a University as a Smart City”. She was involved with the Stevens Sustainability Committee and was part of the student-led organizing committee for the inaugural Student Sustainability Symposium in 2016. Yan was the President of the INCOSE Student Division at Stevens in 2013. Yan earned her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). At UTEP, she was the Chair of the Green Fund Advisory Board, overseeing the selection and funding of campus-wide sustainability projects.